The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched its Frontier supercomputer designed to help researchers accelerate scientific discoveries. Frontier is the world’s first exascale computer composed of 74 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray EX cabinets that include 9,400 Advanced Micro Devices-powered nodes and 90 miles of interconnect cables, ORNL said Wednesday. “Exascale computing is […] More

Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, and four other executives and officials were tapped to join the board of directors of Space Foundation. The 2022 Wash100 Award recipient as well as John Hyten, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Jeff Ashby, former NASA astronaut; Pascale Ehrenfreund, president of […] More

Intelligent Waves (IW) has named six senior public and private industry leaders to join its advisory board and assist the company in achieving its market expansion and strategic growth goals. The company said the additional members are retired lieutenant generals John Sattler and Thomas Metz; Rob Franklin, cofounder of GoodSeeker; Jim Hunt, former president of […] More

The SpaceX-built Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts from NASA and foreign space agencies was launched Friday using the company's Falcon 9 rocket for a six-month scientific research mission on the International Space Station. NASA said Friday Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Cielo Global Holdings' CieloGov subsidiary has announced the formation of a military advisory board that will be responsible for providing insights in support of its federal government transactions.

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Executive Mosaic, the leading executive media and events company in the government contracting “GovCon” industry, announced the 2020 winners of the highly coveted and prestigious Wash100 Award. The full list of winners and more information about the award can be found on Wash100.com. 

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NCAA March Madness is one of the most anticipated sporting events each year. The spectacle of seeing the best teams and the best players in the U.S compete for one of the top prizes in sports generates excitement. Just like March Madness, you can participate in the GovCon competition yourself. This year, the competition to win […] More

Raytheon has provided $1.5M to help the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation launch new educational initiatives as part of the year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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Triad National Security has received a notice to proceed from the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration to begin transition efforts for the management and operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The company said Monday it will officially assume operation and management responsibilities at the national lab on Nov. 1 after the […] More

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch and Tim Conway, president of NTT Data’s public sector business, have been appointed to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors for fiscal year 2018-2019. Desch is one of the eight executives appointed by Rich Montoni, NVTC board chairman and vice chairman at Maximus, to the trade association’s board, […] More

Dewberry will help the U.S. Geological Survey identify the impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands through the collection of topographic data via light detection and ranging. The company said Wednesday it will gather and process Quality Level 1 lidar data under the USGS Geospatial Product and Services Contract for the 3D Elevation […] More

Raytheon has created an aerospace and defense subsidiary in the United Arab Emirates to mark its 30th year of partnership with the country’s government. John Brauneis, formerly vice president for supply chain management at Raytheon, will serve as chief executive of the Abu Dhabi-based Raytheon Emirates business, the company said Wednesday. Brauneis said the subsidiary aims […] More